Photo: Piotrek Gumiś · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer shared households of unrelated adults than 98% of Irish towns: 1.7%
Four in five residents said they are Catholic (Ireland’s towns: 71%). For Sixmilebridge, the census puts households without a car or van at 7.8%. At 8.6%, the share of residents aged 65 and over is lower than in 86% of Irish towns. There were 975 households here at the 2022 Census, home to 2,832 residents.
What stands out about the people of Sixmilebridge
A town of families
42% of households are couples with children and 13% lone parents with children, more than in 91% of Irish towns and the highest share in Co. Clare; 26% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
+8% since 2016, a pace 54% of Irish towns didn’t match
Residents at the 2016 and 2022 censuses, on 2022 boundaries, and the change beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Change, 2016 to 2022
CSO publishes yearly population estimates for counties and regions, not towns, so the trend is two censuses rather than a line; 2016 ages aren’t on 2022 boundaries, so there is no change by age.
Half of Sixmilebridge is under 35.6, younger than 75% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
By its share of residents aged 15 to 24 (13%), Sixmilebridge is above 60% of Irish towns. The biggest five-year age group is 10–14, with 11% of residents, 1.6 times the share across Ireland’s towns.
Median age of Irish towns of 2,500+
■ Sixmilebridge, 35.6. The typical town is 37.6.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Clare 51.5%, Ireland 51.2%.
4.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 91% of Irish towns
CSO’s social classes (everyone, by their own or their family’s occupation), the occupations of those at work, and where residents lived a year before the Census.
Residents by social class · all residents
Where residents lived a year earlier
Residents who lived somewhere else a year earlier. The bar runs to 25%.
Workers by occupation · residents at work
The biggest occupational gap is in process, plant and machine operatives: 13%, against a typical 7.8%. The benchmark for residents who moved in within the year across Ireland’s towns: 7.5%. The share of students among residents 15 and over stands at 12%.
A larger share of households of parents with children than 91% of Irish towns: 55%
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Clare’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
Across Ireland’s towns, households average 2.7 people; in Sixmilebridge, 2.9. One-person households are rarer here than in just over two thirds of Irish towns. Set beside that, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
Households in flats make up 4.9% in Sixmilebridge, less than in 88% of Irish towns
Home types, cars and the internet, by household. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Cars or vans · share of households
Internet at home · share of households
Holiday homes make up 0.5%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. Set beside that, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
Before tax, the median household income is €63,640 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Households here have a median gross income of €63,640, 6% higher than across Ireland (€60,120). Co. Clare as a whole has a median of €54,650.
18% born outside Ireland, fewer than in 72% of Irish towns
Place of birth and citizenship as CSO asks them: born abroad includes Irish citizens born abroad.
Born abroad, by birthplace · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%
Citizens of another country, by citizenship; CSO counts dual Irish citizens as Irish.
Other languages · share of all residents
CSO’s small-area tables don’t give the year people arrived.
At home, 17% use another language, chiefly Polish (7.8%), and 1.9% speak English not well or not at all. For residents born outside Ireland, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 22%. Few places have so few residents with another country’s citizenship: 11% here, fewer than in 69% of Irish towns.
Sixmilebridge sits below 90% of Irish towns for daily speakers of Irish outside education (0.6%)
Residents aged 3 and over who can speak Irish, and how often they speak it outside education (CSO).
Irish speakers · residents aged 3 and over
Irish speakers number 1,084, or just over two in five residents aged 3 and over. Across Ireland’s towns, daily speakers of Irish outside education come to 1.1%.
A lower share of residents with no religion than 86% of Irish towns, at 12%
Ethnic or cultural background and religion, in CSO’s categories, as people described themselves.
Ethnic groups other than White Irish · all residents
White Irish, not charted: 82% of Sixmilebridge · Co. Clare’s towns 82% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White Irish make up 82%, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. Across Ireland’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 17%.
Half of adults have never married
Marital status of residents 15 and over, and unpaid carers.
Partnership status · residents 15 and over
The small-area tables count carers, not their hours of care.
34% of residents 15 and over are married. Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 5.4%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns.
Sixmilebridge ranks below 69% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 28%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
A tenth of Sixmilebridge’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 11% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). As a reference point, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
41 towns of 2,510 to 3,211 people: this is the 9th youngest
Median age of the Irish towns nearest in population; hover a dot.
Kilbarry is the youngest (30.4); Ballybrack the oldest (45.5). Nearest to Sixmilebridge in age: Kingscourt (35.2), Ballyjamesduff (35.5), Ballynanty (35.7) and Virginia (35.8).
Around Sixmilebridge, 5 of 6 towns have a higher median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sixmilebridge | 2,832 | — | 35.6 | 8.6% | 55% |
| Shannon | 10,256 | 7.6 km | 38.5 | 15% | 44% |
| Newmarket-On-Fergus | 1,887 | 8.1 km | 38.8 | 15% | 45% |
| Caherdavin | 7,364 | 10.7 km | 35.3 | 16% | 39% |
| Ballynanty | 3,030 | 11.3 km | 35.7 | 17% | 42% |
| Ardnacrusha | 1,229 | 11.7 km | 44 | 14% | 61% |
| Farranshone | 7,874 | 12.2 km | 43.5 | 23% | 32% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Clare’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Clare’s towns of 2,500 or more and over the Irish towns of 2,500 or more (city totals left out). Percentiles are within Ireland only.
- The earlier population is an estimate. Towns had no official 2016 count on today’s boundaries, so the 2016 figure is CSO’s electoral-division count shared out by where people lived in 2022: read a small town in a large rural division loosely.
- What these tables don’t give. The small-area tables give no year of arrival and no hours of care, and a town’s electoral divisions run past its edge, so the page doesn’t split a town into named areas (a city lists its neighbourhoods).
- The census’s own words. Born abroad, citizenship, ethnic or cultural background and religion are CSO’s questions and categories; the page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
Questions about Sixmilebridge’s residents
What is the population of Sixmilebridge?
Sixmilebridge had 2,832 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Sixmilebridge?
The median age is 35.6, younger than 75% of Irish towns. 31% are under 18 and 8.6% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Sixmilebridge?
41% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (1,084 people), and 0.6% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Sixmilebridge?
82% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 18% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Sixmilebridge?
80% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 8.3% another religion; 2.9% didn’t say.
Is Sixmilebridge good for families?
55% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 31% of residents are under 18. Schools near Sixmilebridge are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Sixmilebridge?
Median gross household income in Sixmilebridge was €63,640 in 2022, against €54,650 across Co. Clare and €60,120 for Ireland.
Sources: CSO, Census of Population 2022, Small Area Population Statistics · CSO PxStat FP009 (2016 by electoral division) · CSO GPIIA, household income 2022. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).